Show R colors Shiny App

• Colors are very important for the graphical visualization of the results of a data analysis
• There are 657 colors that are defined in R using color names – Obtained using the colors() command in R

head(colors(), n=4)

[1] "white"         "aliceblue"     "antiquewhite"  "antiquewhite1"

• Some of these color names in R include exotic sounding ones such as 'steelblue1', 'thistle', 'mintcream' and so on! But how do these colors actually look?
• This 'Show R colors' Shiny app can be used to quickly visulize how the named colors in R look onscreen

• Very simple to use - just enter a common color name (or a string) in the text box provided and click “Submit”“
  • The named colors in R that contain the entered string are displayed
  • If no match is found for the user entered term, an error message is displayed

• This is version 1 of the 'Show R colors' Shiny app
• Successive versions of this app can have the following features included:
• To display the color given an RGB triad or a hexadecimal representation
• Display color pallettes like heat.colors(), rainbow() and so on…

Thank You!